The White House Women’s Leadership Summit on Climate and Energy is recognizing today a select group of women experts from the public, private, academic and philanthropic sectors who are working to address climate change. Three Argonne researchers – Robin Graham, Leah Guzowski and Ann Schlenker – are part of this select group.

Researchers will be receiving $1.5 million in funding from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to develop a procedure for managing the stranded energy left in high-voltage electric vehicle battery packs after an accident.

The two main routes for the deactivation of catalysts consisting of metal nanoparticles are coking (the accumulation of carbon on the metal that blocks the catalytic sites) and sintering (the formation of larger metal particles that lowers the activity).